Enforcement of Owners
Corporation Rules
Living in a strata titled building means you are living in a community. So that the community operates as harmoniously as possible, each Owners Corporation has a legislated set of standard rules by which each person must use their home / investment / property. Some Owners Corporations also ‘additional rules’ registered. Every owner and occupant of a strata titled property must comply with the rules of the Owners Corporation.
The overriding purpose of the rules of the Owners Corporation is to ensure that people do not unreasonably interfere with another person’s use and enjoyment of their property or the common property. From time to time do not abide by the Rules of the Owners Corporation, which results in the Owners Corporation having to take legal action in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to compel compliance.
Owners Corporation rule disputes are becoming more and more common place in Victoria as more and more people move into recently constructed strata titled buildings. Rule disputes range from:
Altering or damaging the common property, including services like the elevators or central garbage chutes;
Repeatedly playing excessively loud music at night;
Parking in other Owner’s car spaces or the common property;
Dumping hard waste on common property;
Threatening and or verbally abusing other owners; and
Undertaking building works within a property that may affect others without the consent of the Owners Corporation.
